China and Russia vow to enhance military ties

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Thursday, 28 August 2014 09:10

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Defence & Security News - China & Russia

Thursday, August
28, 2014 11:30 AM

China
and Russia vow to enhance military ties

Top Chinese
and Russian military officers pledged to further enhance military ties on
Wednesday, August 27. Fan Changlong, vice chairman of China's Central Military
Commission (CMC), told Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the
Armed Forces of Russia, the development of relations between the two countries
and the two armed forces have maintained good momentum in recent years.

Valery Gerasimov,
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, and his Chinese
counterpart Fang Fenghui

The two sides conducted fruitful cooperation in areas of high-level exchanges,
strategic consultation, joint military exercises and others, said Fan.

China
is willing to work with Russia to implement the consensus reached by the
two heads of states, continue to enhance mutual support and coordination,
expand depth and width of cooperation so as to jointly safeguard regional
stability and world peace and development, said Fan.

During
his speech, Gerasimov said the bilateral state-to-state and military-to-military
ties between China and Russian have entered a new stage. He said Russia
is ready to make joint efforts with China to lift the bilateral ties to
a new high. The two sides also exchanged views on the regional and international
situation as well as military reforms.

Also
on Wednesday, Chief of General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation
Army Fang Fenghui held talks with Gerasimov.

Gerasimov
will attend the meeting of the chiefs of general staff of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO) members held in Beijing on Thursday.

Founded
in 2001, the SCO consists of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
and Uzbekistan.